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South African Journal of Information Management

On-line version ISSN 1560-683X
Print version ISSN 2078-1865

Abstract

SWART, Christelle; DU PLESSIS, Charmaine  and  GREEFF, Elnerine. An integrated social media communication view on content marketing by South African non-profit sectors. SAJIM (Online) [online]. 2021, vol.23, n.1, pp.1-9. ISSN 1560-683X.  http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/sajim.v23i1.1366.

BACKGROUND: Organisations widely adopt social media to communicate with stakeholders, yet research into content marketing in the South African non-profit sector is sparse. It is concerned with consistently producing valuable and relevant content for social media. As it is generally associated with the field of marketing, limited research exists from a communication perspective. This perceived gap in taking a communication stance prompted this investigation into the ways in which these organisations attend to social media content aspects OBJECTIVES: The research objective was to acquire a broad understanding of content marketing on social media, unique to South African non-profit organisations. Key areas that were uncovered and statistically verified in an earlier quantitative study and how these are attended to in real life were explored. METHOD: A qualitative approach was used to obtain in-depth insights into the use of content marketing. Semi-structured interviews were used as data collection method to explore non-profit sector's approaches to social media communication, and to determine whether their efforts could be regarded as being integrated. RESULTS: The findings yielded valuable insights into the ways that non-profit sectors in South Africa practise social media communication. The benefits of using social media for communication is acknowledged, yet vital aspects such as sourcing content, considering stakeholders' needs and demographics communication, using available planning tools and recognising employees as internal ambassadors are not considered. CONCLUSION: The findings of this study highlight several key areas and topics that organisations should consider an integrated social media communication approach as alternative for content marketing in the non-profit sector.

Keywords : social media communication; content marketing; non-profit organisations; corporate brand; integrated social media communication.

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